Linguistic means of incongruity realization in the texts

Linguistic means of incongruity realization in the texts of English jokes

Humour is a subjective social value that concerned with specific range of human emotions.

Discourse characteristics dialogical character dynamism spontaneity transparency cooperativity

Text categories of joke: completion connectivity informational content modality intertextuality

Jokes based on: sociological psycholinguistic communicational functional-pragmatic criteria

Joke stylistic features: modernity anticipation genre manner intertextual remake irradiation of expressiveness unjustified expectation carnival consciousness

Pragmatic functions: entertaining attractive switching controlling masking therapeutical

Linguistic incongruity realized on: phonetic morphological lexical and phraseological syntactic levels

Phonetic level: Two men at the Zoological Garden stood puzzled before a bird “It’s a heagle, said one. “It’s not, said another, “it’s a howl”. They appeared to a by-stander “Both wrongly”, he said shortly, “it’s nowl”.

Lexical level: Diner: Do you serve crabs here? Waiter: We serve anyone sit down. Crab − 1) a shellfish; 2) someone who is always annoyed and complains about unimportant things

Phraseological level −What would you like to get your teeth into, Grandpa? −A glass of water, please! to get your teeth into − to eat between meals; to have a snack

Syntactic level Teacher “A noun is the name of a thing. Who can give me a noun? ” First Boy “A cow. ” Teacher “Very good. Another noun? ” Second Boy “Another cow”